‘In the beginning, Katie and Body were best friends…In the beginning, Katie and Body were infinite with possibilities….’
Katie is on a voyage to prove that they can be graceful. But perhaps she already is. She’s taken up synchronised swimming, and it’s a lot harder than they thought – but she’s buoyant, beautiful even. Many of the things Katie thought to be true about her body aren’t. Turns out, there’s a whole bunch of people just like them. There are lots to unlearn.
Join Katie and Body on their quest as she brings you what she’s learnt about her fat body in a journey through synchronised swimming, live music and whales.
Katie Greenall is a solo performance artist who makes autobiographical and semi-autobiographical work about marginalised bodies, particularly fat bodies and fat liberation. Katie draws from their own experiences of living with a fat body and how this is viewed within our specific cultural contexts. They are interested in how marginalised bodies create community, how they are treated differently in spaces and how we engage each other through non-traditional performance.
This is a work-in-progress performance of brand new work from award-winning artist Katie Greenall.
This show is part of Roundhouse PROCESS – a work-in-progress series interrogating artistic processes and artist care – part of the Roundhouse’s year-long theme of Liberation.
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